So here it is: the Link Your Stuff Year Overview 2013! These links were the most popular in the past months. Do you want to visit these websites again? Then click the links that match with the month underneath the picture.I want to thank you for taking part of Link Your Stuff so enthousiastic! For me it has been so much fun to see what everyone links every week. I hope to see you all back again in 2014. For now I wish you a wonderful New Years Eve! Be careful and have fun!

I received an enormous amount of toys for Romania the past few weeks. The end result? In total I received 131 toys, 2 hats, 17 keychains/baghangers and 2 baby toys. Amazing! There were small toys and large ones, but they were all very pretty and sweet. I made an amount of mice myself, and besides that I made a few toys I made once before (this bee, this whale, this whale, this duck and this carrot bunny).The comments I got from the people that joined were great. I know they all sent in their toys totally selfless. But despite that, I will give one of them a gift card of 25 euros from the webshop Wolplein. Perhaps the person that receives the gift card can use this money to make toys for other charity organisations. There are so many of them, go here for examples.I wrote all names on little notes, I put them in a jar and I took out one. And the two people who sent in a package together and who will receive this gift card are Marion en Gerdie. Ladies, thanks so much for your contribution and I hope you'll enjoy the Wolplein gift card.

With this blog post I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas! I hope you all have a wonderful time, whereever you are and with whoever you're with. A special Christmas present is forSusiewanShe won the book Zoomigurumi 2. Susan, congratulations! Please send me an email with your address. I'll make sure you'll receive the book as soon as possible.p.s. the pattern of this star is here. I made this star with Phildar Coton 3.

The amount of toys that I've been collecting for Romania is huge. As you can see in the right sidebar I received a lot of toys and other cute stuff. I've been crocheting a lot of mice, but I liked to make more then just mice. So that why I made this cute little pig, I found the pattern here.Would you like to join and send in toys? Then you have to be very fast, because this Saturday I'm taking all the toys to the leader of the project. I hope to give more information about the project in January, but I'll post a picture of everything that I received somewhere next week. I'm sure that'll be a cute picture.And don't forget to come again tomorrow for the results of the giveaway (see blog post below). Do you want to give it a double try? Then check my facebook-page (click here), because I'll be giving away another copy of the book on FB.

It's here: Zoomigurumi 2! Another great compilation with cute patterns, assembled by Joke Vermeiren, the founder of the website Amigurumipatterns.net. One of the patterns that's in this book was already on my blog earlier this week (click here). You can purchase the book here. For the English version of this book, go here to Amigurumipatterns.net. So you probably can imagine that I'm really excited that I'm allowed to give away one book (a Dutch version)! Do you want to take a chance? Then make sure you're a follower of my blog and leave a comment below. I'll announce the winner this Tuesday. Good luck!

So just before Christmas another giveaway, doesn't that sound fun? Come on over to my blog this Sunday because this is another giveaway you don't want to miss. The picture above gives a small hint. Do you have any idea?

I'm still working on my mice-project, although sometimes I have to slow it down because I've been ill twice. But, despite that I'm still on schedule, and in the meantime I thought of a fun way to let you know how far I've got. How many mice did I make? Check the video below and you'll see. Have a lovely Sunday everyone!p.s. I crocheted these mice with Phildar Coton 3.

Some time ago I got a really fun question. If I wanted to do a test for the website Wolplein to see what my favourite yarn and crochet hook is. I received a package at home and I started working with it right away. I noticed that my favourite crochet hook (the Lana Grossa Soft Grip), and my favourite yarn (Phildar Coton 3 and Drops Paris) were in there. But would they still be my favourite at the end of the test? Click here to read all about it on the blog of Wolplein.

Oh and I made the crochet hook cover below of my favourite yarn (Phildar Coton 3). The pattern is here. It is actually a cover for you pajamas, but that's not very cool when you're almost 40 :-)

So how's my Mouse-Project going? Well, the first seven mice are finished! Above you can see the first five. Do you want to see all seven? Go to my Facebook-page because I'll show a different mouse every day on FB. The pattern is here. Read more about my Mouse-Project here. Have a lovely Sunday everyone!p.s. I made these mice with Phildar Coton 3.

This cute little fox was linked at Link Your Stuff recently and I started making one immediately. The pattern is very easy and good to follow, you can find it here on the blog of Helena. Helena glued eyes on it, but because I didn't have them I used 6mm safety eyes. I crochted with Phildar Cotton 3 (available here) and a crochet hook size 3mm. The fox is very tiny (from nose to tail about 13cm) but he's very cute. I'll put him in the box for Romania (read more about that here), I hope somebody will be very happy with him. By the way, do you follow my Mouse-Project on Facebook? Read more about that here and click here to go to my Facebook-page.

Now that I'm making toys for Romania as well (read more about that here) and there's only one month left to send them in (before Christmas at the latest) it seemed a fun idea to make an amigurumi every day for the rest of December. Every day? Yes, that's pretty often but I thought that if the pattern isn't too difficult I must be able to make it. So that's why I designed the mouse above (made with Catania and Phildar 3 cotton, available here for instance), the pattern is below if you would like to make one (scroll down for English pattern). Now I'll be making lots of mice this month of this pattern, but every mouse will be different. Do you want to see them all? Follow me on Facebook (click here) because I'll be posting a picture every day.I'll also announce the winners of the Creagenda of Knottenwol on Facebook. So keep an eye on my Facebook-page today!

I just received the first package (already!) and to my big surprise there were 30 crocheted toys in it. They were all made by Anneke and they will all go to the children in Romania. Anneke, thank you! Do you want to send in crochet toys (or other crochet items) as well? Then read this post (click here).

I've made a lot of things for charity and very often I'm asked if I know good charity projects. And yes, I know of many good projects, but this time the project found me. I got an email at work from a co-worker. I I know somebody who wanted to give something for children in Romania. The person who asked is going to Romania in January with a group of friend, and last year they surprised a group of kids with presents. They would love to do that again, so that's why they asked for maybe a little present. Ofcourse I'd love to help. But it seems fun to give even more then my own crochet goods. So I thought, maybe one of you would like to help? They are leaving on January 1st, so I think I need it before Christmas if I want to deliver the goods in time. So there's not much time left, but maybe you've got something that's already finished? Or maybe you can find the time to make something small? Everything is welcome, big or small, as long as it is crocheted or knitted, because that's what I'd love to give. Are you in? If so, send me an email (click the button on top of the right side bar) and I'll let you know where you can send your gift to as soon as possible.

I found the pattern of this Carrot Bunny just recently on the internet, and I thought it looked so cute that I made a Carrot Bunny on the same evening. It's a very easy pattern, it's in English. Click here to go there.About my previous blog post (click here), I had a few responses. Unfortunately I didn't find the right cotton for Margo, but I did get a few emails with very useful information that I forwarded to Margo. Thanks a lot for your comments!

We've all experienced it: you're working on a project, you're almost finished and... you've ran out of yarn. Very annoying, but even more annoying when you find out that you cannot buy this yarn anymore. This happened to Margo. She send me an email and asked me if I had one or two balls of the yarn of the label above. But unfortunately I don't have it. So that's why I'm asking you for help. Who has one or two balls of this cotton? It's of the brand Austermann, type Mirabelle, colour beige (70-3). If someone has a ball of this cotton for Margo, please send me an email and I will pass it on to Margo.

It seemed fun to crochet an existing pattern in another variant. So that's how I decide to make the fish of this blog post in two different colours. I think the result is really fun. If you want to try it as well, then go to the pattern (click here) and change colour at the beginning of the sixth row. Have fun!